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Modern Web browser don't allow true peer-to-peer, you always need a server.

Jami uses a fully distributed network (DHT) to initiate connections.

Webtorrent is a thing though. Is it not true peer-to-peer?

webtorrent builds on webrtc, which requires stun and ice servers. so you still send metadata to defined servers for connection handeling and most sadly you can't p2p in an offline LAN.

> so you still send metadata to defined servers for connection handeling

This is also true for typical p2p protocols though, isn't it? Normal torrent clients for example have hardcoded servers to start their dht search from.

Not necessarily. It does follow that if you submit to a tracker, but there's the DHT option which is advertised locally [0]. The way it seems to do it is the magnet uri includes the contents of a few IPs that might have, at minimum, a more up-to-date DHT with more IPs. At best it also includes some chunks of whatever you're trying to download.

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1332107/how-does-dht-in-...

https://superuser.com/questions/592238/ does not seem to agree with that statement.

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